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Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Today's card is evidence of just how useless I am at following even the simplest of recipe challenges... this is supposed to be for the '1 circle, 3 brads' recipe at Catch The Bug, but I've just realised that as my card is round I've actually got 2 circles... oops! I'm still linking my card up, but please delete me if I don't qualify...

We decided to be boring and not bother with trick or treating this year - it's so cold and it's raining now too! We're all stocked up for any trick or treaters who venture out, but we've only had a few so far... think we're going to have lots of goodies left, what a shame ;o)

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Our challenge for this week at Passion For Promarkers is 'fright night' (or Halloween). We're sponsored by our very own Michele, who is offering one lucky winner 3 of her fab digi paper packs which are available at Whimsy Designs.

I really didn't want to make another Halloween creation that would just sit there unused, so I cheated and made something a bit more general... My mum will snap this one up, she likes cute witchy stuff!

Don't look too closely at my colouring! I was trying something a bit different - I wanted a fairly solid black, with white highlights, rather than the grey tones I usually use, so I coloured with black and then added touches of white prisma pencil... not totally successful, but you have to try these things don't you?!

Off for a couple of hours crafting while the boys are happy playing their games (it's the school hols this week), but I'll be around later to catch up with your blogs. Hope you all have a lovely day :o)

Sunday, 28 October 2012

I've just sat down to start blogging, and realised I haven't actually taken a photo of the card I was going to show you... and I'm feeling lazy so I can't be bothered to get up and take a photo now lol.... so I'll show you this one instead!

Just a quick one I made using my under-used Stampin' Up owl builder punch, for my brother-in-law's 'Names Day' a couple of weeks ago. According to hubby, in Poland 'Names Days' are celebrated in a bigger way than birthdays... in fact, my mother-in-law said I should make one up so they could celebrate for me too lol.

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Over at A Gem of a Challenge we have a fab new theme for the next fortnight - polka dots/ spots. There are lots of spots on my card... unfortunately I seem to have hidden most of them under my layers... oops!

I think this sweet snow couple might be my favourite ever stamp from Pink Gem Designs... they get used every year, I just have to remember who I've sent them to before! I'll be safe with this one though, because it's for an order.

Well I'm hoping to have a huge catch up with all your blogs today, if the internet connection decides to play nicely. We've got some sort of intermittent fault on the line, so there's an engineer coming out on Thursday to have a look. Hopefully they'll be able to sort it out, as it's been going on for a couple of weeks now and it's getting a wee bit irritating!

Friday, 26 October 2012

Sugar Nellie are releasing 3 gorgeous new Christmas digi stamps today and we're having a little hop to celebrate :o)

You should have arrived here from the fabulous Jane's blog... if not, please pop over to the Sugar Nellie blog so you don't miss anyone's lovely creations - as always there'll be prizes along the way so do leave comments as you hop!

For my card I've used the super sweet Letter to Santa... he really is so lovely to colour :o) Not especially happy with my card though, I think I was having an off day...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

While I was demoing on Saturday, hubby was supposed to be taking the boys to a naming ceremony for his friend's little boy. I'd seen this little gift wallet on the very lovely Vicky's blog, and couldn't wait to have a go, so thought I'd make one for hubby to put a gift card in... it can be used to put money in too, and is so easy I'm sure I'll be making more. Thanks for the fab tutorial Vicky!

As I said, hubby was supposed to be going, but he actually got 5 minutes away from the venue and Dex's little voice piped up in the back... 'I need to get out!' and then he was very sick... everywhere... So they all went home again! I'm quite glad I was demoing ;o)

Saturday, 20 October 2012

I'm a bit late posting this - I did a promarker demo today, so I've been busy busy busy preparing for it... hopefully normal blogging activities can now resume!

Our new challenge at Sweet Stampin' is 'Halloween'... Now I must admit I don't really 'do' Halloween, and I wouldn't really choose to make anything for it, but I know lots of you do, so hopefully this will be an easy one! This very simple little card will probably get popped in one of the boys' lunch boxes... hmm, that means I have to make another one doesn't it?! We're sponsored by Letraset who have a fab pack of pens for our lucky winner, and Joanna Sheen is our monthly sponsor with a £10 voucher prize.

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Hello everyone :o) Sorry to have been such a rubbish blogger over the last couple of days.

We had some horrible news on Tuesday - the little kitten who was supposed to be coming to live with us died, in not very nice circumstances, before we even got to meet him. The boys were so upset, and my heart just wasn't in blogging at all, so I'm afraid I've got a bit behind with commenting on all your lovely blogs.

However, we managed to find someone with a little ginger boy who needed a home... and he's now here, asleep in his little bed, safe and sound :o) We've called him Boris, he's 8wks old and gorgeous!

So... onto today's card, which is for an order - they wanted something with a 'roller hockey' theme, and I looked and looked, and discovered that roller hockey images just don't exist (someone's going to show me one now...), so I've adapted an ice hockey one from Bugaboo. It's for a 13yr old, and I'm really hoping this will be ok!

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

I'm here with my DT card for Passion For Promarkers, where our new challenge is 'bee happy' (yellow & black)... you can use bees too, but you don't have to. We're sponsored by Joanna Sheen who is providing our winner with a £10 voucher for her fab online store.

I thought I'd try and make the yellow & black theme work for a Christmas card... not exactly traditional but I think I quite like it!

I might edit this to link up to some challenges later... Need to shut myself away in the craft room for the day, or I'll end up spending hours blogging and getting nothing else done! I'll catch up with you all this evening, hope you have a lovely day :o)

I'm not sure it's really me, but at least I had fun :o) I've not got much time this week, as I'm busy preparing for a promarker demo that I'm doing on Saturday, so there'll probably be fairly quick creations on my blog for the next few days. My demo's at Pennyholme Crafts in Eckington, if anyone local fancies coming along - just give them a ring to book first.

Rushing off for my usual mad dash around your blogs... Hope you all have a lovely evening :o)

Time for our new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge - this fortnight our theme is 'flowers' which is really easy... but for some reason I couldn't seem to add any to my card, it just wasn't working for me on this one! Luckily there are flowers on the image and papers, and I've added a little flower button too.

So a very simple one from me today, as I was a bit time challenged! The pre-coloured images from Pink Gem Designs are so handy when you need to make a card quickly, or when you're just not in the mood for colouring - and you get the line version as well, so you can also choose to colour them yourself.

**Edited - I've just remembered I meant to enter this for the 'pink plus one' challenge at In The Pink (I've used pink & brown/ kraft)**

Oh, and as you'll already know if you're my Facebook friend (feel free to add me by the way!), hubby finally caved in and said we could have the kitten :o) We should be getting him/ her in the next few days, and I can't wait!

Here's a photo my mum sent me of our new little furry baby...

What a naughty little face eh?! This one's going to be trouble lol :o)

Friday, 12 October 2012

Hello :o) It's Friday at last... it feels like it's been such a long week! And I'm getting a cold just in time for the weekend, how lovely...

Anyway... today is my day to post on the Sugar Nellie blog, and I've used a gorgeous stamp from last year's Christmas release. This little penguin couple is called Warm Winter Wishes - aren't they sweet?

Come & Get It - from the list I've used green, glitter, gems, ribbon & circles)

Yesterday my mum rang to tell me about a ginger kitten who needs a home... she sent me a photo too, and he/she (they're not sure) is adorable, and I want!!! Hubby's not keen on the idea though, so I've not mentioned anything to the boys yet. Not sure how I'm going to convince him, but I really need to!

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

For today's card I've used a very pretty Whimsy stamp, and some gorgeous First Edition 'Isabelle' papers. These aren't actually Christmas papers, but I think they work really well for girly Christmas cards - lovely colours and a lot of the sheets are sparkly :o)

Oh, and just in case you think I'm going a bit loopy... I do realise I've only got sons lol! This is one that my friend's ordered...

Thank you all for your lovely comments and messages about Morgan's 'incident' at school. The meeting was fine, the 'helper' is actually a student teacher and has been temporarily suspended while the school completes their investigation. Morgan is fine - just a bit worried about all the fuss he thinks he's caused! But they called him in after our meeting to reassure him that he did the right thing reporting it... I'm happy with how they're dealing with it anyway.

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Yes, I know it's a bit early to be panicking about it, but I thought I was doing quite well with Christmas cards so far this year... Then I got a couple of big-ish orders, counted up what I'd made already and realised I need to get cracking quick!

So here's a simple one using a cute LOTV pre-coloured die cut image, with some gorgeous new Bo Bunny papers. Apologies in advance for the Christmas zone that my blog's likely to become for a while!

(the image was bought & not used last Christmas so is older than 6 months)

I've been called into school tomorrow morning, to discuss an incident involving some sort of school 'helper' who hurt Morgan on purpose... it sounds like some silly idea of a joke but he's really hurt Morgan's hand. The pupil support staff and head teacher seem to be taking it seriously so we'll see what's going to happen tomorrow :o(

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About Me

I'm Lisa, and I live in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with my husband Pav and our 2 boys Morgan (15) and Dexter (10yrs). We also had another son, Harvey, who sadly was stillborn in Feb 2007. I've always lived in Sheffield, but my husband is from Poland.
I'm completely obsessed with cardmaking - I think I even dream cards!
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